煙草在線據法新社報道編譯

2010年，菲律賓一名女子在塔比拉蘭的一家市場賣魚。

去年，馬尼拉的公共汽車終點站發現了一個禁止吸煙標識。

　　菲律賓政府煙草部門的一名官員說，菲律賓發起了一項推動煙草的新活動——不是推動用于吸煙的煙草，而是用于魚類養殖。

　　菲律賓國家煙草管理局的Rex Teoxon說，6個月后，北部濱海省份拉烏尼翁的大約400名漁民將利用“煙塵”殺死捕食魚類的軟體動物和其他食肉動物。

　　菲律賓國家煙草管理局企業企劃部的領導人Teoxon說：“我們準備就利用煙塵的可持續發展水文化，對漁民和整個社區進行培訓。”

　　這項舉措是面對全球反吸煙活動的浪潮，尋找煙草的替代性用途的行動的組成部分。

　　Teoxon說，由粉碎和加工后的廢煙葉做成的煙塵，是漁民們一直使用，但“已經被禁止很久的高毒性化學物質”的安全替代品。

　　他說，測試發現，由于活性成分尼古丁在兩三天內就會蒸發掉，因此，煙塵能殺死食肉動物，但對漁場里養殖的魚類不會產生影響。

　　此外，他補充說，它有助于給水域施肥，促進養殖魚類所食用的水藻的生長。

　　這位煙草管理局的官員說，煙塵還可以免費提供給漁民，但如果被證明有效的話，還可以對它進行商業化營銷。

　　過去，菲律賓國家煙草管理局對使用煙種作為人類食物和動物食物進行了試驗，它還推動將煙梗用于造紙和顆粒板。

　　盡管菲律賓政府對吸煙和卷煙廣告實施了嚴格的控制，但煙草業在經濟和成千上萬人的生計方面仍然起著重要的作用。

　　Teoxon說，政府的一項調查發現，在2010年，多達290萬人依靠煙草業為生，其中包括68萬農民和他們的家庭成員。

Philippines pushes tobacco - for fish farming

AFP

　　A woman sells fish in a market in 2010 in Tagbilaran in the Philippines.

　　A no smoking sign is seen at a bus terminal in Manila last year.

　　The Philippines has launched a new campaign promoting tobacco -- not for smoking but for fish farming, a government tobacco agency official said Thursday.

　　Over six months, about 400 fish-farmers in the northern coastal province of La Union will be using "tobacco dust" to kill mollusks and other predators that prey on fish, said Rex Teoxon of the National Tobacco Administration.

　　"We are going to train the fisher folk and the whole community on sustainable aqua culture using the tobacco dust," said Teoxon, head of the agency's corporate planning department.

　　The drive is part of an effort to find alternative uses for the crop in the face of the global anti-smoking campaign.

　　The dust, made of pulverised and processed waste tobacco leaves, is a safer alternative to the "long-banned, highly-toxic chemicals" that the fish farmers have been using, Teoxon said.

　　Tests have found the tobacco dust kills the predators but does not affect the fish raised in the farms, with the active ingredient nicotine evaporating in two to three days, he said.

　　Additionally, it helps fertilise the waters, promoting the growth of algae that the farmed fish feed upon, he added.

　　The tobacco dust will be provided free to the fish-farmers but if proved to be effective, it will be marketed commercially, said the tobacco official.

　　In the past, the agency has experimented with using tobacco seeds for human and animal food and it still promotes the use of tobacco stalks for paper and particle boards.

　　Although the Philippine government has imposed strict controls on smoking and cigarette advertising, the tobacco industry still plays a huge part in the economy and the livelihood of thousands.

　　Teoxon said that a government survey found that in 2010, as many as 2.9 million people were dependent on the tobacco industry including 680,000 farmers and their family members.